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1,000 days of revolution
In a new book reviewed by KENNY COYLE, Chile’s Communist Party critically assesses the 1970 - 73 Allende government of Popular Unity
Augusto Pinochet (left) and President Salvador Allende (right), attend a ceremony naming Pinochet as commander in chief of the army in 1973
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On the morning of September 11 1973, British-made Hawker Hunter jets bombed La Moneda presidential palace in Santiago, Chile. Hours later, Chile’s elected head of state President Salvador Allende was dead.
Soldiers raided working-class districts across the country rounding up left-wing activists. Around 40,000 were incarcerated in Chile’s National Stadium, awaiting interrogation. Many faced torture and imprisonment, others execution. Hundreds of other militants simply “disappeared.”
Allende’s government of Popular Unity was replaced by a military junta headed by General Augusto Pinochet.
The experience of Popular Unity and its dramatic and bloody end is dealt with in a new book from Praxis Press, 1000 Days of Revolution. This book contains nine chapters, each one written by a prominent Chilean communist as part of their party’s attempt to self-critically analyse the weaknesses of Popular Unity.
These articles were originally published in the Prague-based World Marxist Review and subsequently published as a book in 1978.
The Chilean experience was a sustained attempt to advance to socialism through a non-armed strategy based on a constitutionally elected government.
Popular Unity’s failure has often been taken by its leftist critics as definitive proof of the impossibility of any such path.
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